For years Pete Lehmann wrote the annual report in HG magazine on the region 9 hang gliding cross country cumulative competition (which, if memory serves, he won on several occasions). Lehmann's contributions to the magazine were always action-packed, illuminating, and often hysterically funny. The Air & Space article, in comparison, is a bit stodgy in my view, but I am sure that is because its subject is not hang gliding. Nonetheless, the article describes some serious and tragic events from the days of aviation development between the two world wars.